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...become Secretary of State; the first Secretary who had visited Peking and Moscow before his appointment; and the first Secretary since World War II who did not part his hair. He pursued the last topic relentlessly, speculating as to what category Dean Rusk, who had no hair, belonged: "My barber, who is a very wise man, said, 'Well, Mr. President, he didn't have much hair, but what he had, he parted.' " In my reply, I evaded this fascinating subject. Nixon disappeared immediately afterward, not mingling even for a few moments at the traditional reception in the State Dining Room...
However, "Some of the changes may have the effect" of helping minority students score better on the test. Charles M. Barber, director of communications at LSAC, added...
...Worse yet, the Congressional Budget Office disputed those figures, pegging the 1983 deficit at a staggering $157 billion and predicting a climb to $188 billion in 1984 and a whopping $208 billion in 1985. "There's a lot of panic among the Republicans," said New York G.O.P. Congressman Barber Conable. "They are splattering all over the ceiling...
...million unemployed, and it was really not until the war that the army of the jobless finally disappeared." "Some of the New Deal legislation was very hastily contrived," says Williams College's James MacGregor Burns, author of a two-volume Roosevelt biography. Duke's James David Barber, author of The Presidential Character, notes that Roosevelt "was not too open about his real intentions, particularly in the court-packing episode...
Roosevelt in Retrospect, charged him with "dilatoriness, two-sidedness (some critics would say plain dishonesty), pettiness in some personal relationships, a cardinal lack of frankness . . . inability to say No, love of improvisation, garrulousness, amateurism, and what has been called 'cheerful vindictiveness.' " And, as Duke's James Barber bluntly puts it, "he cheated on his wife...